What name would you love to use but you feel you can't because it's from another culture?

[Wavyheaded]

Just for fun... I'm not even close to having a kid but love thinking about names.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Serafina (my all time favourite name!) but I'm not of Mediterranean or French descent and so it would be weird to use it - unless I marry a French man.

I also love Ettyenne, another French name (I think), it's just so elegant.

What do you wish you could use?

Luisella (pronounced Louise-Ella) - gorgeous Italian name

Luisella is just a nickname though as Luisa (for some reason) is considered too grown up. Similarly, Mariella, Mariolina are nicknames for Maria

The only Luisella I know is really a Maria Luisa just to confound things, and my good friend Marilu (who I had always presumed is also a Maria Luisa is a Lucia!!)

My mums name is Jacinta, its of greek origin yet we've only ever come across 2 other Jacintas both asian, our family are all english, i love it and used it as my daughters middle name, i loved Abel for my ds partner hated it, he ended up with a Scandinavian name, but it suits him, no ties but we loved it

Oh there's so many names I loved but felt I couldn't use because I had no connection to that culture

I love

Priti
Priya
Nadiya
Tatiana
Mario

Use whatever name you want.
I know plenty of Asian people with names like Alex and Matthew- should they not have been given those names because they’re not white european and not christian? They’re not Hebrew or Greek speakers either.

I'm always asked if we are Russian or Greek already due to my DSes names. They both have British forms of the names but DS1's name is fairly rare in its British form and the only ones I've met had Greek or Russian parents. I also liked Dimitri and Vasily but wouldn't have used them as they didn't have a British form that I liked.

I'd really have liked Catalina for a girl but would more likely have used Catriona, which is a family name. We both like quite a few Welsh names enough to use them with only tenuous links to Welsh heritage, and had Rhiannon and Emrys close to the top of our shortlists. A girl might have had the Indian Meghna/Meghana as a middle name in honour of an Indian friend who died not long before we had our children. She suggested it for all female babies but I don't think anyone else took her up on it!

I absolutely adore Nilufar which is Persian or some of the more unusual old testament ones like Hepzibah. I can just imagine a little Nilu with my very Yorkshire surname.

Laszlo. This is entirely because the hero of one of my favourite novels is named Lazlo (without the s) and I would love to name a son after him but as neither DH nor I have a drop of Hungarian blood, it would just sound weird.